Burner.



A. BURTON.

BURNER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAB.. 9, 1910.

1,003,329.` l Patented sept. 12,1911.

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ARTHUR BURTON, OF WHI'IESBORO, TEXAS.

BURNER.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR BURTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at llilhitesboro, in the county of Grayson and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Burners, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to an improvement in hydro-carbon lamps and particularly to an apparatus in which the hydro-carbon oil is delivered under pressure to the burner for ignition, the pressure medium, such as air or the like, being carbureted and delivered to the lamp for initial ignition and vaporization of the oil.

The main object of the present invention is the provision of means whereby the body or hydro-carbon oil is subjected to a determinate air pressure and said oil and air delivered to the carbureter, the carbureted air being subsequently delivered to the burner for initial ignition and the oil from the carbureter i'inally delivered to the burner and vaporized under the weight of such initial ignition.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a vaporizing tube disposed to the maximum height from the burner and utilized as a support for the mantle at the burner.

The invention in its preferred details of construction will be described in the following speciication, reference being had particularly to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical, sectional view, partly in. elevation, illustrating the improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is an enlarged, vertical, sectional view of the burner.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawings, the improved apparatus comprises a supply tank 1 adapted to receive the desired quantity of hydro-carbon oil, as gasolene or the like, said tank being closed and provided in its top with a filling opening 2 and with a pipe section 3 whereby air may be delivered to the interior of the tank from any desired source to provide the required interior pressure.

An oil supply pipe 4 is arranged within the tank having its lower open end slightly above the bottom of the tank, said pipe beyond the tank being provided with a valve and being extended to and projected within a carbureter 6, the pipe 4 terminating slightly above the bottom of the carbureter.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 12, 1911. Application led March 9, 1910.

Serial N0. 548,166.

'The carbureter 6 is preferably in the form of a closed tank and may, if desired, be transparent whereby the height of the liquid within the tank may be observed. In the absence of such transparent wall the carbureter is to be provided with any desired form of device for indicating the height of the liquid therein.

An air supply pipe 7 extends within the supply tank 1 terminating slightly below the'top of said tank, and extending behind the tank to and with the carbureter, terminating slightly above the bottom of the latter. A valve 8 is arranged in the pipe 7 whereby said pipe may be closed at pleasure. The tank 1 is also provided with a pressure indicator 9 to indicate at all times the pressure within the tank. A liquid supply pipe 10 extends from the carbureter to the burner, said pipe having its open, lower end arranged slightly above the bottom of tbe carbureter, and a vapor supply pipe 11 also extends from the carbureter to the burner having its open end terminating slightly below the top of the carbureter.

The burner comprises the usual base 12 which is preferably supported by the burner nipple 15, said base comprising the Vusual plate 13, and depending cylindrical housing 14C, the housing 14 having openings through sides and bottom for inlet of air. The burner nipple 15, is secured to and supported by needle-valve (without number in drawing) which needle-valve is supported by end of liquid supply pipe 10. The burner-nipple 15, is provided with a depending section 16, having a downwardly flaring opening 17. And below and in alinement with the section 16, I arrange a sleeve 1S supported from the nipple 15, by branches 19. Vithin the sleeve 18 is mounted a valve nozzle 20 having a needle opening 2l at its upper end controlled by the usual needle valve 22, the nozzle being preferably held Within the sleeve 18 by a set screw 23.

The needle opening 21 of the nozzle is directly in vertical alinement with the opening 17 in the project-ion 16, and spaced from the end of the said projection to provide for the mixture of the air with the vapor before the latter reaches the burner. The oil supply pipe 10 is, at its juncture with the burner base, in open communication with the vertical projected pipe section 24 which, by means of a suitable coupling, is connected in communicationwith one leg of an inverted U-shaped vaporizing tube 25, the remaining leg of which is connected to and in communication with the vapor tube 26 which extends through the plate 18, through the sleeve 18 and end and in communication withy the nozzle 20. The vaporizing tube is thus projected Vin inverted U-form above the burner 15, and in such position is adapted and designed to support the upper Yend of a mantle 2f? designed to Vcooperate in upon the valveris closed. The valve 8 is then opened to admit air under pressure to the carbureter, such air, as will be obvious,

Y being forced through the body or liquid in v the carbureter. The valve 29 is then opened and the carbureted air admitted to the needle of the burner and ignited. The valve 28' is then yopened and the oil under pressure of the air will be delivered to the vaporizing tube and vaporized by the heat Afromthe burner and the vapor delivered to the point of ignition through a manual control by the valve 22.

Constant supply of the fuel to the burner is thus provided for by a simple means of increasing theV pressure on the body or liq- ,Copies of this patent may be obtained for uid within the tank 1, the Vapor supply tube 1l being if desired left open to provide a continuous supply of carbureted air to the burner whereby to further enrich the mixture and secure increased brilliancy of the light.

`It is of course to be understood that the tubes 10 and 11, which are the connecting 4means between the supply apparatus and the burner, are comparatively small and may, be of'any desired length so as to locate the burner remote from the tanks or immediately adjacent thereto as may best suit the particular conditions under which the lamp is vto be used.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

In a hydrocarbon burner, the combination with a base plate, of a nipple integrally formed therewith, said nipple being provided with a slotted opening, acentrally depending section integrally formed with said base plate, said section being provided with a flaring opening, depending arms integrally formed with said base plate, a sleeve supported by said arms, a nozzle removably supported within said sleeve and in alinement with said depending section, a Vaporizing tube in communication with said nozzle, and a needle valve within said nozzle, substantially as and for the purpose as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR BURTON. Witnesses G. T. SUMMY, V. R. MARICHAL.

iive cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

